Berlin - Yasmin Fahimi, A German-Iranian woman, is tipped to become the next secretary general of Germanyˈs co-governing Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Frankfurt-based daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said Wednesday.

Social Democratic leader Sigmar Gabriel has reportedly nominated 45-year-old Yasmin Fahimi to succeed Andrea Nahles who became labor minister in the new German government, the paper cited SPD leadership and labor union circles as saying.

A top labor union official, Fahimi is to be elected to the new powerful post in the SPD during a party congress on January 26.

Born in the north German city of Hannover, Fahimiˈs father is Iranian while her mother is German.